APPLIES TO:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later

SYMPTOMS:
OCI VMDB system automatic backup failed with DCS-10434:Control file and/or spfile handles could not be retrieved from rman logs

# dbcli describe-job -i eb4e137d-e964-4125-9a92-a8ac37f68963

Job details
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ID: eb4e137d-e964-4125-9a92-a8ac37f68963
Description: Create Longterm Backup with TAG-DBTLongterm1607781653171eX1 for Db:EBSDBCD in OSS:b46QrGluH5WbGabom9ha
Status: Failure
Created: December 12, 2020 2:15:32 PM UTC
Progress: 56%
Message: DCS-10434:Control file and/or spfile handles could not be retrieved from rman logs.

Task Name Start Time End Time Status
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
task:TaskSequential_14371 December 12, 2020 2:15:35 PM UTC December 12, 2020 2:44:43 PM UTC Failure
Validate Database backup Configuration December 12, 2020 2:15:35 PM UTC December 12, 2020 2:15:57 PM UTC Success
Backup Database December 12, 2020 2:15:57 PM UTC December 12, 2020 2:44:43 PM UTC Failure
task:TaskSequential_14374 December 12, 2020 2:15:57 PM UTC December 12, 2020 2:44:43 PM UTC Failure
Database backup December 12, 2020 2:15:57 PM UTC December 12, 2020 2:44:43 PM UTC Failure


CAUSE:
controlfile autobackup is set to OFF.

CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP OFF


SOLUTION:
Change the below configuration in RMAN and restart the backups.

RMAN> CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
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